Word: pedestrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory orgy got off to a rather pedestrian start on Monday with speeches and fireworks. At 11:15 at night Police Desk Sergeant Charles White leaned back in his chair, said: "My God, things are dead. . . . Nothing like last time, when they tried to burn the city hall." Three minutes later the first alarm sounded. A few blocks away, patrolmen found a streetcar burning. Then a mob tipped over the patrol wagon. Then a sailor ignited the gas that spilled...
...hours and 17 minutes of unassailable if rather pedestrian sincerity, The Keys of the Kingdom never grows tedious. Toward the end it produces two very moving scenes of farewell-one, beautifully and quietly acted, between the priest and a nun (Rosa Stradner), the other, the priest's simple and eloquent farewell to his congregation and to the whole of his remote, triumphant life...
...translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...
...speaking campaign for Roosevelt and Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), did some running himself. His two-man police escort left him in their car for a few minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise...
...Prime Minister was half through his pedestrian, almost defensive report to Britain and the U.S. last week. Suddenly, into an uninspired voice, crept the thrust and crackle of the fighting Churchill. In one by-election after another, ungrateful Britons had turned down Churchill candidates, criticized Churchill politics. He was angry. His anger burst, red-hot, out of thousands of British and U.S. loudspeakers...